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Top 200 Metal Masterpieces Of All Time
RANKING CRITERIA :
- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]
- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]
| 1. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 2. | Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind |
| + 195 more |
Top 50 Doom/Gothic Metal Albums
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Katatonia - Discouraged Ones |
| 4. | My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| + 65 more |
The Best Gothic Metal Albums
Note 1: This list will take time before it gets a definitive form (or it might take forever if good gothic metal albums will be released in the future).
Note 2: Another important feature is that this…
Note 2: Another important feature is that this…
| 1. | Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance |
| 2. | Tiamat - Wildhoney |
| 3. | The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Lake Of Sorrow |
| 4. | Tristania - Widow's Weeds |
| 5. | Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear |
| + 96 more |
Brimbly-Brambly Bucka-Bucka Woozle-Wuzzle It's A Doom List.
This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.
The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid…
The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 3. | Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| 4. | Candlemass - Nightfall |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 632 more |
Death Doom Metal In The 90S
In 90s one of the my beloved subgenre has started. This should be a compendium of all death doom old school albums featured on MS. If i miss something, you are free to suggest me something to be listed.
| 1. | Winter - Into Darkness |
| 2. | Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise |
| 3. | Tiamat - The Astral Sleep |
| 4. | Paradise Lost - Gothic |
| 5. | Goatlord - Reflections Of The Solstice |
| + 44 more |
Best Metal Albums Of Decade 90'S
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 3. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 4. | Pantera - Cowboys From Hell |
| 5. | Death - Symbolic |
| + 259 more |
My Top 100 Metal Albums EVER
| 1. | The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet? |
| 2. | Tiamat - Wildhoney |
| 3. | My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings |
| 4. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 5. | Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites |
| + 95 more |
Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)
RESTRICTIONS
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
| 1. | Death - Symbolic |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 4. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 395 more |
1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
| + 1242 more |
Death Metal I enjoy the most
Here's a little list displaying my personal favorite death metal albums, based on the same idea as my heavy metal list, thus stressing the raw and the genuine. For me death metal has to be crushing,…
| 1. | Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious |
| 2. | Suffocation - Pierced From Within |
| 3. | Cynic - Focus |
| 4. | Septicflesh - Εσοπτρον |
| 5. | Death - Symbolic |
| + 81 more |
Dark Metal: The Definitive Albums
The purpose of this list is not to find and record which albums are the best but to define Dark Metal. We will try to specify which albums are the definitive examples of Dark Metal. "Dark Metal"…
| 1. | Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos |
| 2. | Celtic Frost - Monotheist |
| 3. | Nightfall - At Night We Prey |
| 4. | Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons |
| 5. | Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest |
| + 37 more |
One-Hit Albums
A (most probably incomplete) list of albums on which I really enjoy only a single song (in alphabetical order, excluding one-track albums).
They turn out to be albums that I rate a 6 or 7 overall -- with…
They turn out to be albums that I rate a 6 or 7 overall -- with…
| 1. | Agalloch - Pale Folklore |
| 2. | Amorphis - Far From The Sun |
| 3. | Annihilator - Set The World On Fire |
| 4. | Asphyx - The Rack |
| 5. | Bathory - Blood Fire Death |
| + 92 more |
Top 100 Gothic Metal Records
Yes, I decided to do another gothic metal list because it been rapidly changing since my last two lists. I love revisiting this kind of list because of how different my tastes have changed withing this…
| 1. | Anathema - Eternity |
| 2. | Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell |
| 3. | The Foreshadowing - Days Of Nothing |
| 4. | Monumentum - In Absentia Christi |
| 5. | Tiamat - Wildhoney |
| + 95 more |